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Episode 34: The Counter-Revolution: Germany, 1919–1923
3 november 2026 · 46 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore how the largely peaceful German Revolution of November 1918 descended into terror and bloodshed. Picking up where the previous episode left off, they examine how Friedrich Ebert’s provisional government turned to the army and the Freikorps to crush the so-called Spartacist Uprising of January 1919, leading to the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. They trace the wave of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary violence that followed, from the assassination of Kurt Eisner and the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republics to the brutal Freikorps assault on Munich. Along the way, they ask who the Freikorps men really were, challenge the myth that they were brutalised proto-Nazis, and follow the more extreme units such as the Ehrhardt Brigade into the Kapp Putsch, the underground death squads of Organisation Consul, the murders of Matthias Erzberger and Walther Rathenau, and finally Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Lees meer
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Episode 33: ‘The Greatest of All Revolutions’. November 1918 and the Fall of the Kaiserreich
27 oktober 2026 · 57 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the German Revolution of 1918–19, when a mass popular uprising swept away the Kaiser and every other German dynasty. Tracing its roots to the thwarted revolutions of 1848, they follow the upheaval through the munitions workers’ strikes of January 1918, the naval mutiny that autumn, the formation across Germany of workers’ and soldiers’ councils, and the extraordinary ascent of Friedrich Ebert, a socialist and former saddler, to head of state. They unpick the storied Ebert–Groener Pact and the bloody suppression of the January 1919 uprising in Berlin, culminating in the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Was this a half-hearted revolution, a revolution betrayed – or a democratic breakthrough judged much too harshly in hindsight? Lees meer
Links:
https://www.academia.edu/81063033/Kiel_Uprising_Womens_activism_and_the_German_Revolution_November_1918
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Episode 32: The Curious Cult of St Oswald: Kings, Ravens and Mermaids with Sarah Bowden
20 oktober 2026 · 55 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris are joined by Sarah Bowden, Professor of German and Medieval Studies at King’s College London, to explore one of the strangest puzzles of medieval Europe: why hundreds of churches and chapels across southern Germany, Austria and the Alps are dedicated to Oswald, a 7th-century king of Northumbria. From Bede’s account of a Christian warrior king and his miraculously incorruptible right arm to the royal marriages that carried his cult into the Holy Roman Empire, they trace how Oswald travelled from northern England to Weingarten Abbey and beyond. Along the way, they uncover how German storytellers transformed him almost beyond recognition, adding a multilingual raven, a bridal quest, mermaids and a chaste marriage enforced by a cold bath. What can one saint’s many reinventions tell us about power, faith and culture in medieval Germany? Lees meer
Links:
https://oswaldusrex.co.uk/
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Episode 31: The Making of Baldur von Schirach and the Hitler Youth
13 oktober 2026 · 1 uur
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the life of Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitler Youth and one of the more unlikely figures in the Nazi elite. Born into a wealthy, cosmopolitan family with American roots, Schirach enjoyed the privilege and connections to pursue almost any career. Instead, he threw himself into the fledgling Nazi movement long before it had any prospect of power. From his antisemitic schooling in Weimar and starstruck first encounter with Hitler to his mobilisation of ultranationalist university students and his ambition to forge an entire generation of children in Nazism’s image, Katja and Chris explore Schirach’s rise within the Nazi movement. They trace how a sensitive young aristocrat became a convicted war criminal, culminating in his role in the deportation of Vienna’s Jews. They also examine how his grandson, the bestselling author Ferdinand von Schirach, has grappled with this troubling inheritance, and what his response reveals about Germany’s continuing struggle with the memory of Nazism. Lees meer
Join us as we untangle this complex story, dispelling the popular myths and misapprehensions about a national history that still shapes the world we live in.
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Episode 30: Augustus the Strong - Europe's Worst King? with Prof. Tim Blanning
6 oktober 2026 · 59 min
In this week's episode, Katja and Chris are joined by Professor Tim Blanning to discuss Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Famous for his strength, mistresses and lavish parties, Augustus has been called one of Europe's worst monarchs. They explore how he won and lost the Polish crown, his failures in the Great Northern War, and his triumph as the patron who transformed Dresden. So was he really such a bad king? Lees meer
Books
Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Augustus-Strong-Artistic-Greatness-Political/dp/0241705142The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-Glory-Europe-1648-1815/dp/014016667X/
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frederick-Great-Prussia-Tim-Blanning/dp/0141039191/Join us as we untangle this complex story, dispelling the popular myths and misapprehensions about a national history that still shapes the world we live in.
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Episode 29: The Guillaume Affair: A Stasi Spy in the Chancellery
29 september 2026 · 55 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the Guillaume Affair, one of the Cold War's most dramatic spy scandals. Günter Guillaume was an East German Stasi officer who spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks of the SPD to become Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide. They ask how he got there, what West German intelligence knew, and why his arrest in 1974 brought down one of West Germany's most charismatic chancellors. Lees meer
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Episode 28: Wilhelm I with Jan Markert
22 september 2026 · 56 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris are joined by historian Dr. Jan Markert to look past the myth of Wilhelm I as a passive "soldier on the throne" and uncover the shrewd, hands-on monarch who shaped Germany's path to unification. They trace his Napoleonic-era childhood, his doomed teenage romance, his brutal role in crushing the 1848 revolution, and the real story behind his appointment of Bismarck, one that overturns the popular image of Bismarck as the mastermind and Wilhelm as his pawn. Along the way, they explore his troubled marriage, his fraught relationships with his son and grandson, and why Wilhelm's legacy still deserves a serious reckoning. Lees meer
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Episode 27: The Hidden Germans of the White House
15 september 2026 · 50 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the hidden history of German America in the White House. From Friedrich Trump's secretive teenage flight from Kallstadt in 1885 to the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump, they trace how the largest immigrant group in American history became so thoroughly assimilated that its influence all but disappeared from public view. The episode also uncovers Donald Trump's decades-long insistence that his family was Swedish rather than German, and asks why a community of 44 million Americans produced so few leaders ever remembered as German American. Lees meer
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Episode 26: A Bureaucracy of Death: Nazi Germany's T4 Programme
8 september 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris examine the origins and implementation of Aktion T4, the Nazi regime’s systematic programme of mass murder targeting disabled people. They trace the intellectual and political foundations of the programme, from nineteenth-century eugenic thought and Weimar-era anxieties about demographic decline to the 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring and, ultimately, the establishment of a coordinated system of mass killing by gas, which anticipated methods later employed during the Holocaust. Lees meer
The episode considers the roles played by doctors, nurses, administrators, and other state officials in implementing the programme, exploring how professional expertise and bureaucratic structures facilitated mass murder. It also examines the question of public knowledge, considering what ordinary Germans knew about the killings, how information circulated, and the extent to which popular opposition contributed to the programme’s pausing in 1941. During a second, more discreet phase of T4 from 1942 onwards, however, a further 120,000 victims were murdered. Katja and Chris discuss the slow engagement in post-war West Germany with the crimes of T4 and its belated recognition in memory culture.
Links
- Henry Friedlander - The Origins of Nazi Genocide
https://uncpress.org/9780807846759/the-origins-of-nazi-genocide/
- T4 Registration Form (1939/1940) https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/t4-registration-form-1939-1940
- One More Thing project
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Episode 25: The Dark Legacy of Nietzsche’s Sister
1 september 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, the sister who became the architect of her brother Friedrich's public legacy. From a devout Protestant upbringing in Saxony and a doomed attempt to found a "racially pure" German colony in Paraguay, to her return as a penniless widow who transformed herself into the gatekeeper of Nietzsche's writings, they trace how she edited, curated and sometimes fabricated his work, most notoriously assembling "The Will to Power" from his scattered notes. They examine her growing nostalgia for the old imperial order, her early admiration for Mussolini, and her complicated relationship with Adolf Hitler, who visited her Weimar villa on every trip he made to the town as German chancellor until her death in 1935. Lees meer
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Episode 24: From the Rhine to the Reich: German Jewish Life Before 1871
25 augustus 2026 · 54 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris trace the long and sometimes misunderstood history of Jews in German-speaking Europe, from Roman Cologne to the founding of the German Empire in 1871. They explore how Jewish communities settled along the Rhine under Frankish and medieval rulers, survived cycles of expulsion and violence including the Crusades and the Black Death pogroms, and gradually built livelihoods as traders, doctors, and financiers who were excluded from land ownership and the guild system. Along the way they examine the Reformation's impact on Jewish-Christian relations, the Enlightenment-era friendship between Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Lessing, and how the French Revolution and Napoleon's armies spread the idea of Jewish civic equality across the German lands. The episode also looks at the 19th-century process of emancipation, the amicable social relations between Jews and Christians recalled by memoirists of this period, and how the deep, centuries-old entanglement of Jewish and Christian life made the antisemitism of the Nazi era so emotionally devastating for German Jews. Lees meer
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Episode 23: Building Socialism: How the GDR Tried to House a Nation
18 augustus 2026 · 56 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the East German regime's ambitious drive to build socialism one prefabricated apartment at a time. Between 1971 and 1989, the GDR pledged to build millions of new homes, using concrete, steel and propaganda to try to eliminate the post-war housing shortage and forge a "classless" society. Drawing on Katja's own family history growing up in a GDR housing block, they trace the story from the rubble of 1945 and the Bauhaus's prefabrication experiments in Weimar, through Walter Ulbricht's neglect of housing in favour of heavy industry, to Erich Honecker's flagship building programme and the birth of vast new estates like Halle-Neustadt (aka "Ha-Neu""). They ask whether the GDR's caring dictatorship ever really delivered on its promise of a home for every family and what became of these estates after reunification. Lees meer
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Episode 22: How Germany Invented the Way You Eat with Claudia Kreklau
11 augustus 2026 · 46 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris are joined by historian Dr Claudia Kreklau to uncover the surprising German origins of the way the world eats today. They explore how chefs fleeing the French Revolution found new homes in Prussian courts, how volcanic eruptions and failed harvests triggered starvation and revolution in the 1840s, and how the German middle class turned household preservation tricks into an industrial food empire. From Liebig's meat extract and the rise of tinned goods to the 1879 food law that cracked down on adulterated products, they trace the messy, fascinating path from farmhouse kitchens to global brands like Knorr, Maggi, and Heinz. And rediscover the women whose culinary innovations were quietly erased from the historical record. Lees meer
Website: https://claudiakreklau.wordpress.com/
Handles and Profiles:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1621-5300
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=57204513593
GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fJ5HIJgAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Profile: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/ck230/
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/claudiakreklau.bsky.social
Twitter: @Claudia Kreklau
The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 - Studies in German History (Hardback)
Berghahn PDF: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/OpenAccess/KreklauMaking/9781836953609_OA.pdf
Amazon EPUB: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Modern-Eating-1780-1910-Studies-ebook/dp/B0GF76PPNX/ref=sr_1_1And here the articles mentioned:
“Masters of Food: Climate Crisis and Optimized Exploitation in an Atlantic Hinterland before the Revolutions of 1848,” German Studies Review (Johns Hopkins UP), 49:1 (February 2026) 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2026.a983097
“Vaterland, c.1780-1870,” German History (Oxford UP), 43:3 (October 2025) 373–394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghaf036
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Episode 21: Blood and Iron in Africa - Germany's Colonial Violence
4 augustus 2026 · 51 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris continue their exploration of Germany's colonial empire, turning to the violence that underpinned it. They examine the daily brutality of plantation and settler life, the international suppression of China's Boxer Uprising, and the genocidal war waged against the Herero and Nama peoples in German South West Africa under General Lothar von Trotha's extermination order. They also explore the lesser-known Maji Maji uprising in East Africa, the fierce backlash this violence provoked in German domestic politics, and the fraught historical debate over whether Germany's colonial atrocities prefigured the horrors of the Holocaust. Lees meer
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Episode 20: The Reich Overseas
28 juli 2026 · 56 min
In this episode Katja and Chris explore Germany’s colonial empire, from its early roots in Brandenburg to its rapid expansion under the Kaiserreich. They examine why Germany pursued colonies, how empire was sold to the public at home, and the violence, racial hierarchy, and dispossession behind the colonial dream. Lees meer
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Episode 19: Reichs and Wrongs: Your German History Questions
21 juli 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
In this special Q&A episode, Katja and Chris tackle listener questions on everything from whether the Nazis were really right-wing, to why Hitler never invaded Switzerland, the myth of the German Sonderweg, and the deep roots of Germany's "Russlandversteher" sympathies. They explore a counterfactual on Kaiser Frederick III, unpack why the "stab-in-the-back" legend took such powerful hold after 1918, and discuss the lingering identities of Germans displaced from the East. Along the way: East German football loyalties, whether German reunification would look different in the internet age, Bismarck's self-made myth, the OHL's wartime economic control, and a rundown of the modern Hohenzollern royal family and Germany's fringe monarchist "Reichsbürger" movement. Plus: the truth about JFK's "jelly doughnut" speech. Lees meer
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Episode 18: Hitler’s Long Death with Caroline Sharples
14 juli 2026 · 1 uur
In this episode, Katja and Chris are joined by historian Dr Caroline Sharples to discuss Adolf Hitler’s death. Drawing on Caroline’s new book, The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History (Yale University Press), they explore the ways the Nazi dictator’s demise was imagined for years beforehand, what really unfolded in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945, and how forensic detective work, from dental records to skull fragments, pieced together the truth from charred remains in the garden above the bunker. Lees meer
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Episode 17: Konrad Adenauer and the Making of West Germany
7 juli 2026 · 55 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the long chancellorship of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany’s first postwar leader. From the narrow vote that brought him to power in 1949 to the economic miracle, Western integration, NATO membership, and the slogan “No Experiments”, they examine how Adenauer helped turn a defeated and divided country into a stable democracy. But they also ask what this success cost: the sidelining of reunification, the compromises made over Germany’s Nazi past, Adenauer’s increasingly authoritarian style, and the scandals that finally brought his era to an end. Lees meer
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Episode 16: Konrad Adenauer, the Rhineland and the Reich
30 juni 2026 · 55 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the life of Konrad Adenauer before he became West Germany’s first chancellor. From his Catholic Rhineland upbringing and bitter opposition to Prussian dominance to his transformation of Cologne and uneasy survival under the Nazis, they examine the experiences that shaped his political outlook. Lees meer
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Episode 15: The Eulenburg Affair and the Kaiser's Secret Circle
23 juni 2026 · 52 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the Eulenburg Affair, a royal scandal that struck deep into the heart of Kaiser Wilhelm II's circle of friends and advisors with grave and unintended consequences for Europe. They examine Wilhelm's intense friendship with diplomat Philipp zu Eulenburg, and how accusations of homosexuality became a weapon in the struggle over power. Lees meer
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Episode 14: Erich Mielke and the Origins of the Stasi
16 juni 2026 · 53 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the origins of the Stasi, East Germany’s notorious secret police, and the ruthless mindset of its long-serving chief, Erich Mielke. From Soviet influence and early political repression to mass surveillance and paranoia, they examine how the GDR built one of the most intrusive police states in modern history. Lees meer
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Episode 13: Austria and Germany: The Anschluss
9 juni 2026 · 47 min
In this week’s episode, Katja and Chris continue their exploration of the tangled relationship between Austria and Germany, from the collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 to the Nazi regime’s annexation of Austria in 1938. Why had so many Austrians believed their new republic could not survive alone? Why was union with Germany banned in the post-war peace settlement? And how did an idea previously associated with liberals and socialists become synonymous with ultranationalism, militarism, and antisemitic violence? Lees meer
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Episode 12: Why is Austria not in Germany?
2 juni 2026 · 53 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the long and complicated relationship between Germany and Austria. They explain how religious differences and Great Power rivalry sustained two competing German identities in Central Europe. Starting from Katja’s childhood memories of crossing the Austro-German border into a familiar yet foreign world, they debate the Holy Roman Empire, the impact of Napoleon, the Hohenzollern-Habsburg dynastic rivalry, the 1848 revolutions, Bismarck, and the competing “small” (kleindeutsch) and “greater” (grossdeutsch) answers to the nineteenth century “German Question”. They show that the idea of “Anschluss”, or union between the German-speaking states, had existed long before Hitler. Perhaps surprisingly, considering what was later to come in 1938, the cause had been associated far more with liberal and progressive forces than those of the political Right. Lees meer
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Episode 11: 1923 The Ruhr Crisis with Mark Jones
26 mei 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
In this week’s episode, Katja and Chris are joined by historian Mark Jones to discuss the 1923 Ruhr Crisis: the French and Belgian occupation of Germany’s industrial heartland, the policy of passive resistance, and the crisis of violence, hyperinflation, and political extremism that pushed the Weimar Republic to the brink. Lees meer
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Episode 10: Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire? The Weimar Hyperinflation
19 mei 2026 · 52 min
In this week’s episode, Katja and Chris explore the Weimar hyperinflation crisis, when German money became almost worthless, prices changed by the hour, and a loaf of bread could cost billions of marks. Lees meer
How did Germany reach this point? What did it mean for ordinary people trying to survive? And why did the trauma of 1923 leave such a deep mark on German society?
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Episode 9: 'We Are The People'. How the Berlin Wall Fell
12 mei 2026 · 1 uur
In this episode, Katja and Chris dive into the final, frantic days of the GDR. They explore the lived reality of the Wende (the turning point) from the perspective of East Germans watching their world dissolve in real-time. From the bravery of the Monday Demonstrations to the surreal shock of the first border crossings, they discuss what it felt like to suddenly step out from the known and into an uncertain, reunified future. Lees meer
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Episode 8: What did you do in the war, Papa? The Student Revolt of 1968
5 mei 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore how West Germany transformed from a conservative postwar society into one rocked by youth rebellion. From the economic miracle of the 1950s to the student protests of 1968, they examine why a new generation began questioning their parents’ past, asking uncomfortable questions about Nazism, authority, and democracy. Along the way, they uncover how cultural change, political tensions, and global movements collided to reshape modern Germany. Lees meer
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Episode 7: East Germany’s Forgotten Uprising
28 april 2026 · 1 uur
In this episode, Katja and Chris dive into the dramatic events of 17 June 1953, when East Germany was shaken by a mass uprising that nearly toppled the young socialist regime. What began as a workers’ strike in East Berlin quickly spread across the country, drawing in over a million people. Lees meer
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Episode 6: Where Did All the Nazis Go After 1945?
21 april 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore how the Allies attempted to denazify Germany after Hitler’s fall, focusing not just on top Nazi leaders but on the millions of ordinary Germans who had supported the regime. They compare the very different approaches of the American, British, French, and Soviet occupation zones, and examine how politics, pragmatism, and the early Cold War shaped the process. Lees meer
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Episode 5: Terror Before the War: Concentration Camps in the 1930s
14 april 2026 · 57 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the origins of the Nazi concentration camp system before the Second World War. They examine how the early camps were created, who they were meant to imprison, and how terror was normalized in German society. They discuss the differences between the early pre-war camps and the later wartime camp system, the role of Dachau as a model for SS violence, and why so many ordinary Germans tolerated or accepted what was happening. The episode also looks at how the camps evolved from tools of political repression into institutions that pointed toward the wider horrors of Nazi persecution and genocide. Lees meer
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Episode 4: Weimar 1928: The Humiliation of the NSDAP
7 april 2026 · 56 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris examine the Weimar Republic at its apparent high point in 1928 and ask the question that still haunts historians today: was German democracy ever truly secure, or was collapse already built in? Lees meer
Looking at elections, economic recovery, Stresemann’s diplomacy, rural unrest, and the Nazis' ongoing inability to gain a hearing from German voters, they explore how a republic that seemed stable and modern could still be far more fragile than it appeared.
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Host: Katja Hoyer & Dr Christopher Dillon
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- Production: Linus Klaßen
- Editing: Hunter Christensen
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Episode 3: The Turnip (and Crow) Winter of 1916/17
31 maart 2026 · 58 min
In this episode, Katja and Chris explore the brutal reality of the 'Turnip Winter' of 1916/17, when the German civilian population was forced to endure extreme hunger, freezing temperatures and a collapsing food system. They explore how the British blockade, disastrous harvests and government mismanagement forced people to survive on animal fodder such as turnips (and crow). The episode reveals that food shortages weakened Germany not only physically, but also shattered morale, fuelled social tensions and played a decisive role in the country's eventual defeat in the First World War. Lees meer
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Untitled History Podcast: http://listen.untitled-history.com/
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Episode 2: The Iron Chancellor: Bismarck and the Making of Germany
24 maart 2026 · 58 min
Chris and Katja take a closer look at the towering figure of Otto von Bismarck. Who was the Iron Chancellor really? What role did he play in the making of Germany? And how is he remembered today? Lees meer
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Episode 1: Reich? What Reich?
16 maart 2026 · 45 min
In the first episode of Reichs and Republics, we set the scene for a journey through German history, from the Holy Roman Empire to reunification. Lees meer
We explore the meanings of 'Reich' and 'Republic', explain why Germany's past continues to shape the modern world, and share what sparked our fascination with the subject.
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Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/rr-paypal
Merchandise and Shop: https://reichs-and-republics.com/collections/allOur WW1 Podcast: https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/
Our WW2 Podcast: https://listen.both-sides-of-the-wire.com
Untitled History Podcast: http://listen.untitled-history.com/
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